Fishing For Freedom recognizes that fish stocks are a renewable resource that can be rebuilt and sustained through industry and government co-operation,and must be supported by a proper investment in science and management.

When one looks at the various processes that have taken place in the Commercial Fishery, in the form of studies and commissions and the like, the focus is always on the Commercial Fisheries. The bureaucratic bungling by the Department Of Fisheries (DFO) is immune from criticism. The politicians that are supposedly over seeing the bureaucracy, the committee on Fisheries and Oceans, appear to support DFO actions without appropriate evaluation of the results of their actions.